I see many people here complaining that the message of this episode was blatantly obvious and simple, but I don't really think that is the point of the episode.
In my interpretation, this episode was mainly here to tell a story of a tragic character that does immoral things out of desperation whilst also showing glimpses of humanity in his actions, which in no way justify his actions. Similarly, they try to humanise each and every side of this story. Even the big CEO of the company that arguably does a lot of social evil has his big humanising moment, where he admits that it all spun out of control, and I think we can all relate to that.
There is no evil character. It is all a complex web that creates evil, and the point, as I see it, was not to bash into the heads of people to not text and drive, or to stop using social media, but simply to tell a story. A story that utilises the all-consuming technology in our society, and I think it does that job fantastically. It is suspenseful, layered, and incredibly moving.
Had I known a little of the backstory I might be invested in the episode, but this was pointless
Talk about shit getting out of hand.
Let this episode be an example to every single tv show writer on how to handle LGBTQ+ characters. Like this, and no other way. Thank you.
That's amazing!!! The plot is very mindblowing, the main character is awesome and funny and they made it in a way that the jump scares were cool. [spoiler] The inception-ish nature of his dying moments gave it a very interesting dynamic to the end of the episode - when you thought the episode were going to end one way, he would wake up and then again. What I liked the most is that everything from the white room forward was made up by his own mind - we don't even know what the test would be about, because right after the machine were turned on his brain went into a frenzy that created all the story - until he died. So, a lot of things were done accordingly with his memories - the house was the one from the game he played and the stairs were very much like the ones from his house. They made it in a way that we thought for the longest time that the machine was an evil AI consuming his brain, but it turns out most of the job was done by his own mind in an allucination caused by his phone interference. I ended it in shock and now I keep remembering just how great it was. He should have just called his mom.
